James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
Sony rookit on 1/4 million PCs, MSRT removes a malware somewhere every 3 seconds and other statistics.
I've been reading a paper about the Malicious-Software Removal Tool (MSRT, and I hyphenate it to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/30/2006
Because my daughter has been on school holidays this week I have been spending time at home and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/29/2006
We had a very well attended roadshow event in Edinburgh earlier in the year, but the truth is we...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/27/2006
Every morning my postman puts 3 or 4 catalogues through the door. My wife's late father had a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/26/2006
I mentioned in my last post that I'd been working on Videos for Virtual Tech-ed - they're calling...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/26/2006
I remember, four years or so ago commenting that a colleague had a new, and better hairstyle. She...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/26/2006
Apple have had to post the following on their website We recently discovered that a small number -...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/18/2006
Last week I was talking to Andy Malone who has been running some great sessions for us up in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/17/2006
I've mentioned previously that I'm coveting the new Pentax K10D - sadly Pentax have pushed the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/16/2006
I had this from a friend a few moments ago: I thought it was priceless From: David {Details...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/13/2006
One thing that people who don't live in Britain find hard to understand is how we can have such...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/13/2006
I mentioned a few weeks ago that we were making Windows 2003 Datacenter server available outside of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/10/2006
If you have a subscription to MSDN or to Technet , you'll be pleased to know that RC2 was made...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/10/2006
Back in July, we announced that that IE 7 for Windows XP will be pushed out using Windows update....
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/09/2006
Steve is off working on Get Safe On-line this week. The BBC reports a government sponsored survey...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/09/2006
I saw an event entitled Virtual Server: The Tip of the Iceberg appear on the list of forthcoming...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/09/2006
Not everyone can make it to Microsoft's office in Reading for Technet events, so we're taking What's...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/09/2006
We have put RC-2 on the Vista download site. It has not yet appeared on the MSDN and Technet member...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/08/2006
I remember the first time I saw the comedian Eddie Izzard perform live, he walked onto the stage in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/06/2006
It looks like someone has been giving Paul Thurrott some internal emails again. We have the build...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/05/2006
I'm was in more philosophical mood than normal this morning. I've heard Tom Reynolds on Radio 4...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/28/2006
We have been getting some bad press over a bug which affects the Vector Markup Language in IE 5 and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/27/2006
One of the blogs that I've found a lot of people seem to be linking to is the "Shell blog". One of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/26/2006
Pentax have just released a fantastic new DSLR. Before anyone jumps to the usual conclusions about...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/25/2006
There's a post "Interim Windows Vista Build 5728 Released Today" over on the Vista team blog. I've...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/23/2006
Before I went on holiday I wrote something for Technet newsletter saying that we planning to make...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/23/2006
We're getting ready to re-run the Get Safe Online campaign. I worked on it last year in my old role,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/21/2006
Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay know a fair bit about politics, which was how they came to write the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/20/2006
I have finally got my outlook unread messages down to zero. There are 1229 Messages in my deleted...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/18/2006
I've been away with the Microsoft Dive Club for 10 days and boy do I have some catching up to do. We...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/16/2006
Go here. The information I had was that we built 5584 on Monday, which was intended to be the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/01/2006
We should be able to laugh at some stuff. I guess Microsoft suffers more than most organizations...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/01/2006
I had a mail this morning which I think is worth sharing. And not to poke fun at the unwieldy names...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/31/2006
Here is some Vista build information Build 5456 was the June CTP (community technology preview)...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/30/2006
Three bits of news that I should mention although if you monitor the Virtual PC home page, you'll...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/30/2006
I found a reference to this on Ed Bott's blog according to what he say a couple of days ago the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/28/2006
I think the world of the people I'm working with at the moment, and of my previous manager too. But...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/28/2006
I'm going to stick my neck out and be (I think) the first Microsoft blogger to tell you where to get...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/26/2006
I've had enough. There are so many robot created spam posts to the comments to this blog - I've just...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/25/2006
Around the office loads of people have been saying the pretty much same thing... and before the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/25/2006
I'm prone to "writer's block" -or as I call it the "tyranny of the blank sheet of paper". Starting a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/25/2006
Here's Something I bet most people most people thought they'd never see. (Thanks to Information...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/22/2006
You can go straight to the blogcast if you don't want to read the text ... Last weekend I went with...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/22/2006
I like the advice given by the conductor Sir Thomas Beacham about "Try everything once, except...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/21/2006
Would Apple sue Scoble's new company ?* . Don't Google for Podcasts. And other stuff from my weekend reading.
Before I was working for Microsoft, I read Douglas Coupland's book "Microserfs". I visited Redmond...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/20/2006
Two quotes for the day I am the final silenceThe last electrician alive And they called me the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/18/2006
There are days I jump in with both feet. One of those was the day that Gordon Frazer was announced...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/14/2006
Yes, the BBC got my attention with that headline too. Here's the official press release. This is the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/14/2006
Several of my recent blog posts have been made with a new Microsoft tool. Writer is branded as part...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/14/2006
Back when beta 2 came out I read Scot Finnie's article on ComputerWorld "20 things you won't like...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/11/2006